updating from terminal

[Colin Law]

On 31 October 2012 21:14, Laurie Bell <bell359 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Steve I get the desktop if I restart,and boot from ubuntu advance.It doesn't run properly from this.
> It just won't boot from turning on computer.

I think it might help if you were to say that again, I, for one, don't
quite understand.  Please explain carefully what you do and what
happens in each case.

Colin


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> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 31 October 2012 19:50, Laurie Bell <bell359 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks,that worked fine.
>> > another line comes up that needs a command,maybe to launch ubuntu?
>> > sorry about HTML trying to get out of it.
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>> It sounds like you've installed the Server version of Ubuntu - this
>> doesn't include any desktop and consequently you'll be looking at a
>> command line until you install a desktop... to put it in windows
>> terms, you've got DOS but now windows. Before you spend a lot of time
>> struggling with the command line, you might want to consider
>> downloading the desktop installation media from
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
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>> You can always use aptitude to pull down gnome, KDE or a number of
>> other desktops but if you're starting from scratch it might be just as
>> easy to pull a fresh ISO and install over the top of what you already
>> have, Either was you'll end up with a Linx distribution with a nice
>> desktop, so the choice is yours - if you have the bandwidth though,
>> I'll just download a 12.10 ISO, install and be done with it.
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